I Can't Believe It's You - Reddie

Chapter Five

They arived last at the hotel. Eddie couldn't keep his eyes off of Richie's car when they parked. He showed Myra their room and got into the shower. The hot water felt nice on his skin and hair. He stood there, letting it fall on his head and watched as the water ran off his hair.

He pulled his hair back and ran his fingers through it. His hands falling down to his check where Bowers had stabbed. He smiled a bit, remembering that moment. He smiled at the thought that he was brave enough to stab him back but wasn't brave enough help Richie when the Spider-Stanley-Thing was on him.

He let out a harsh breath and closed his eyes, his smile dropping. So were his hands. Falling down to his stomach, where he'd had been stabbed through by Pennywise. He had to have a skin graph to replace the skin that was missing to fix the wound. The wound was all pink and out of shape. It stood out. It looked horrible. But at least he was alive. He was living to see that next day. And it was because of Richie.

"Richie," he said softly and opened his eyes. He needed to make things up with Richie. He didn't care if he was gay or if he was an idiot. He loved him. Eddie stumbled over his own words in his head. Loved? Now it wasn't like a brotherly love like he loved Bill, Ben, and Mike. It was more. Even more than he loved his mother and Myra. He's loved him ever since they were kids. Loved the way he teased him. The way he got mad at him, but wanted the attention.

Eddie turned off the water and grabbed a towel. He went back into their room. "Hi baby," Myra said and Eddie had completely ignored her. He grabbed a tanktop, shorts, underwear, and his jacket. He went back into the bathroom. He got dressed and dried his hair. Not fixing it but ran his fingers through it as he left the bathroom. Myra was sitting on the bed, with her phone in her hand. She looked up at Eddie. Before she could speak, Eddie had spoken. "I'm gonna go talk with Richie. Be back in a few." And he was out the door.

He went over to Richie's room and, as softly as he could, banged on his door. A moment of shuffling the door opened. Eddie looked up at Richie and Richie looked down at Eddie. "Hi." Richie finally said. Eddie pushed past him and into his room. "Whoa, if you wanted to you could be just asked." He laughed and closed the door. Eddie folded his arms and stood in the middle of the room. Richie leaned back on the door.

"Okay, mh, I'm sorry. For the argument in the car." Eddie said and Richie stood up straight. "No, no, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have had gotten into your love life." Richie put his hands into his sweat pockets. "But that's the thing." Eddie blurted out. "Wha-" Richie started but Eddie cut him off, "everything you said, it was true. The filling the gap for my mother thing, the no sex thing, it's all true. Damn," he brought his hand up to rub his eyebrows. "I must be like an open book if you could read me that easily." He groaned.

Eddie was an open book, but only to Richie. Richie could always tell what was going on with Eddie. Richie laughed, "I've been always able to read you Eddie. You are an open book to me, dude." Eddie looked at the floor for that. Richie stared at Eddie for a bit before he walked over to him. He placed a hand on his back and rubbed it. "Hey man, I'm sorry about you and Myra. Not every relationships can be as good as what me and your-" "Shut up Richie, Jesus Christ dude." Eddie let out a sad laugh but it stopped out of place.

"I can't," his voice hitched as he thought about what he was going to say. "Can't what?" Richie asked. "Can't keep pretending. I don't love Myra." His eyes filled up with guilt. "You gotta tell her man." Richie responded quickly. Richie was glad that what he said was true and at the same time, he felt terrible that it was true. "I don't know how." Eddie said quietly.

"Well, she leaves tomorrow. So just stay here and think it over. Then when you're ready, go back home and talk it out with her." Richie suggested. The group was going to leave Derry soon, but Richie didn't mind staying behind for Eddie.